Longplayer

Longplayer has been playing for
25 years 289 days 16 hours 20 minutes and 23 seconds

Search & Find Longplayer

Longplayer’s permanent home is in Trinity Buoy Wharf in London. There are also public listening posts around the world, and a continuous online audio stream.

How to find Longplayer

News

An Ethnography of Longplayer, a new installation opening at the lighthouse this weekend

An Ethnography of Longplayer: Year 25 is a new work by artist and animator Jess Mountfield. In the 25th anniversary year of Jem Finer’s 1000-year-long piece of music, Mountfield’s installation explores the fleeting nature of stewardship, when what is being cared for has been composed to continue for many human lifetimes. A collage of the…

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Open House Festival at Trinity Buoy Wharf, 13th-21st September

OPEN HOUSE 📍 Trinity Buoy Wharf, E14 🗓️ 13th-14th, 20th-21st September As part of Open House Festival, Trinity Buoy Wharf is opening its artist studios and heritage sites to the public for two weekends this September: 13th-14th and 20th-21st. Longplayer’s Trustees and friends will be at the Trinity Buoy Wharf lighthouse, home to Longplayer’s London…

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Longplayer in the Lady Chapel of Exeter Cathedral

From the 4th to the 31st August, a Longplayer listening post will be installed in the Lady Chapel of Exeter Cathedral to mark the artwork’s 25th anniversary, and the Cathedral’s 975th anniversary. Throughout this time, visitors are invited to listen to Longplayer’s 1000-year-long score in one of the oldest parts of Exeter Cathedral, and to…

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Letters

Since the spring of 2013, Artangel and the Longplayer Trust have been inviting thinkers and writers from a wide variety of disciplines to engage in a chain of written correspondence on the subject of long-term thinking.

Read the Longplayer Letters